Inside the Pack: Hobby Goals for 2020
I’m not big on making resolutions at the start of each year in my personal life; I find that they often fall by the wayside and I end up disappointed a few months into the new year. I do, …
I’m not big on making resolutions at the start of each year in my personal life; I find that they often fall by the wayside and I end up disappointed a few months into the new year. I do, …
It feels odd to do a review of a 2020 product after having already reviewed 2021 Topps Series 1, but that’s the way things worked out this year. A late arrival for the annual end-of-year Target exclusive put this …
1962 Topps is a labor of love for many collectors. On the surface, it seems to be a standard 1960s set, albeit on the large side at 598 cards (compared to 522 for the 1961 set). Like most sets …
One of the most common questions I hear from collector friends is, “Should I grade this card?” The answer to this question is almost never a simple yes or no. There are many factors that would go into my …
If you’ve collected baseball cards for any length of time at all, then you know the mania surrounding rookie cards of Shohei Ohtani is nothing new. Just last season, there was a similar hysteria over Aaron Judge, and in …
My great-grandmother (Bubbie) lived in Brooklyn, in a brownstone off Coney Island Avenue. She used to visit us in Florida every year for my birthday, taking the Amtrak train all the way down just to see me for a …
When I started collecting baseball cards, my personal collection was just “baseball cards”. In my 9-year-old brain, that was a sufficient collection. After some time I started to focus on Florida Marlins cards, but, since they weren’t around until …
If you were collecting cards in the 80s or 90s like I was, you know that card shops were a ubiquitous sight in almost any city. Where I grew up, I had 6 card shops in a 10-mile radius …